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Herschel13712

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 February 1848]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0067; Reel 1087
Summary:

JH must write official letter to Admiralty stating completion of [Cape of Good Hope] telescope and explaining reason for additional £170.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4803

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.193 (C: RGO 6.230.443)
Summary:

Regarding spots on the sun and [T. J.?] Hussey and [A.?] Dawson's observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0342

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Tuesday night 1848
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/5; MS JT/1/T/512, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel4808

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
1848-2
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.12
Summary:

JH comments on quality of Georg Merz object glasses.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7594

From:
Eduard Heis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1848]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.111; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Owning no instruments, EH appreciated JH's chapter on 'naked eye' astronomy. Notes and drawings of variable stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2049

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny
Date:
2 February 1848
Source of text:
Magdalen College, Oxford, MS 400
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel318

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 February 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.2.156
Summary:

Agrees that some of JH's suggestions about meteor showers were probably unnecessary [see GA's 1848-1-29].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel398

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 February 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.230.444
Summary:

Is aware of T. J. Hussey's drawings [see GA's 1848-2-1]; needs information about P. A. Hansen's lunar theory for an appreciation JH is to provide.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4804

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.194 (C: RGO 6.230.221)
Summary:

Concerning P. A. Hansen's observations of Lunar irregularities.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6972

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[3 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.10
Summary:

Some additional details about JH's aunt Caroline [see JH's 1848-1-27].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3742

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
[3 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.84 (C: RS:HS 25.9.52)
Summary:

JH must arrange for the celebration of Bishop's Observatory. Needs information on its equipment, achievements, and staff, e.g., on W. R. Dawes's and J. R. Hind's observations. Will contact Hind.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6772

From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.89
Summary:

Has found that Orionus is a double star. Compares William Lassell's and Wilhelm Struve's observations of various stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6973

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.241
Summary:

Sending something from Airy relating to the testimonial. Anything he does not use can be returned to Somerset House for AD.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2050

From:
Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 February 1848
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel6694

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.11
Summary:

As JH has accepted the superintendency of the Admiralty Manual he will try to undertake the geological part, but it will take time as he is busy on another project.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1151

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet
Date:
4 Feb 1848
Source of text:
The Royal Society (HS6: 11)
Summary:

Undertakes to write geological part of Admiralty Instructions [A manual of scientific enquiry (1849), Collected papers 1: 227–50]. Has doubts as to his success.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1150

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[4 Feb 1848]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has been invited to contribute geological instructions [to J. F. W. Herschel, ed., Manual of scientific enquiry (1849); Collected papers 1: 227–50]. Asks RO whether remarks on coral reefs appertain to geology rather than zoology.

Looks forward to visit by Owens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1152

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
4 Feb [1848]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:

Invites him to dinner on Saturday the 12th. Charles and Mrs Lyell, Edward Forbes, Richard Owen, and Thomas Bell coming also.

"Will you bring your map of S. America … and we will have a talk over it."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1371

From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.320
Summary:

Has performed experiments measuring the deviation of spectra through an obliquely placed diffraction grating. Believes they strongly support the wave theory of light.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13713

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 February 1848]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0068; Reel 1087 (ACC: Hydrographic Office Letter Book)
Summary:

Received yesterday JH's receipts for payment of Cape telescope. Forwarded these to accountant general of Navy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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